Living outside London
Interested to hear from consultants working 'heavy' weeks (e.g. MBB/T2 average - around 55 hours from my sources) how the commute is from within London?
I just finished an internship commuting from just North of London - was around 40-50 minutes each way, but quite disgusting and makes the day 1hr30 longer. Despite this, rent/stuff is much cheaper, and I like the area a lot more - there is a mix of urban and country.
How is commuting inside London, to clients or office? Is it feasible to live in areas outside of London, so long as there is a train route in?
Merci
Where in London would you be commuting from?
If you work in the City, anything South on the Thameslink (to Blackfriars) is probably doable, or even parts of Surrey (from Waterloo, not a long tube ride). Obviously if you’re near St. Pancras or Paddington, which you probably wouldn’t be, that opens this up a lot.
But, yeah, commuting to London is doable if you’re coming from the right place.
55h is a normal week for us. 65h was my worst week, and I had one where I was headed for 70h (but had a training day to break it up).
Most people I know leave 30mins from the office, but some people live 1h to 1h30 away. They tend to commute 2-3 a week, depending on the case demand.
Thank you for the response.
What do you mean by commute 2-3 a week? As in only go into the office / client office 2-3 days a week, or they stay over in hotels? Is this available to all employees, or is it subject to approval?
They come to London 2-3 times a week.
Now, that will depend on your client too. If they ask for the team to be on-site 4 days a week.... well, that's what it is. But typically we're there maybe 1-2 days a week and 1-2 days in office, and rest at home. But honestly, that's completely team dependent, with most people leaning towards being more accommodating
Wait...sorry if I'm being slow...but you are telling me that consultants get to WFH (subject to team) 1-2 days a week?
I was under the impression that work was entirely in office.
Not at my MBB at least. My current supervisor is 2 days WFH (and normally she does 3). I did a lot of non-billable projects entirely WFH too. And on some CDDs I had some spontaneous WFH days too (needed a break from the office, expected furniture delivered, etc.).
London UK or London Ontario?
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